Turkey develops COVID-19 Testing Kit. 7 Countries requesting to buy the kits.

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Demand for a local test kit

According to the AA report, seven countries also showed interest in acquiring Turkey's domestically produced COVID-19 test kit.

The report said Azerbaijan, Djibouti, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Turkmenistan and Vietnam were in talks with International Health Services Inc. (USHAŞ), a subsidiary of Turkey's health ministry, about purchasing the kits.

Developed with all-local means and resources, the kits give results in 90 to 120 minutes. Introduced in early February, the testing kit has an accuracy rate of 99.6%, according to the ministry.

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkey-shining-example-in-fight-against-coronavirus/news

Standard tests take 12-24 hours to deliver results whereas Turkish developed kit require as much as 120 minutes.

 

[UKBengali]

I am wondering how they worked out the 99.6% accuracy.

Surely they can only verify this by testing on thousands of people- both infected and not infected.